filmed

/fɪlmd/

filmed is the simple past and past participle of film.

Adjective

filmed (not comparable)

Covered with a film.
- A gleam burst through his filmed eyes.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 15, in Klee Wyck
(in-compounds) Covered with a film of (a specified type or substance).
- No words, that I know of, will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. How is one to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green,—the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do...1860, John Ruskin, “chapter X, “Leaves Motionless””, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, , § 24
- White roses and daedal creepers, that Miss Carnot had first adorned the walls with, spread now luxuriantly over the lichen-filmed tiles of the roof, and in slender graceful sprays timidly invaded the ghostly cobweb-draped apartments.1888, H. G. Wells, The Chronic Argonauts

film (third-person singular simple present films, present participle filming, simple past and past participle filmed)

(ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
- A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.
(ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
(transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
- It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

What does filmed mean?: Filmed means covered with a film.
What is filmed the simple past and past participle of?: Filmed is the simple past and past participle of film.
What part of speech is filmed?: Filmed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce filmed?: Filmed is pronounced /fɪlmd/.

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